Corn-removing grinder.



T. J. WEEKS.

CORN REMOVING GRINDER.

APPLICATION FILED 001:.12. 1912.

Patented May 19, 1914.

UNETED STATE PATENT UFFKQEQ THOMAS J. WEEKS, OF PITTSTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

CORN-REMOVING GRINDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 12, 1912.

Patented diary 1!), 191 1.

Serial No. 725,475.

b all whom it may (1072mm :ie it known that I, Tno'nms J. eens, a citizen of the United States, and a resident oi. the city of Pittston, county of Luzerne, Slate oi. Pemisylvan'ia, have inventer l certain new and useful .lmprowsmente in Corn-Removing (irimlers, of which the following is a npeeilieation.

'ihe ohjeet olj' this invention to provide a simple and inei'q eneire nui'gioal applianee for removing; eorns and (-alli hy the grinding;- metl1od,wi,th a preferred form of the deviee and by the simple train of gearing, and a rotary eone shaped grinding imphnnent, as more l;'nlly hereina'li'ter set :torth.

l igure .li a plan View of my improved device. i ig. 2, in a side elevation thereof, and lfig. 3 is a longitudinal seetion on the line 3--25 ol' .liig. 1.

.ltei'erring to the drawing, by reha'enee eharznztern, a d esig'nates a suilahh: il'raine eonsisting of side plates and. nuitahle connecting plates in which is journaled a transfer sha it I), earryiillg a gearing (r, and a thumh wheel d. The gearing 0 meshes; with the pinion (s which is ztllixed to a gear 7'', these two latter gearing: being rotatahly mounted on a rod y. The gear n'n-ehes with a pinion a, wluoh 1H allixed to a rotary shaft 11 iournaled in the .lirame and (carrying a, halanee wheel j, and on iln projeeling end a grinding eone k. This eone Z; prel'e'rahly ot a [neon ol solid eork provided on its pointed end with a suitahle gritty substance.

It will he observed that by rotating the tl'nn'nh Wheel (Z, a very rapid rotation will, he given to the cone, and this rotation will he steadied hy the balance wheel it will he observed that the gear wlheels are inelosed within the li'anle, while [he tlnunh wheel in large enough to exteml in opposite direelioin; heyond the frame; this is i implement may he git-an mal in th hand oi: the operator without interfering \Vllll or heinninjured by the gear wheels, and at the n order that the 1 same time permit the thumb and one of the Iii'igers of the hand to he used in turning the thumh wheel (Z, whereby the cone may be rotated by means of the same hand that holds the implement. in using this implement, the point oi. the cone is placed against the eeuler oi? the eallus or corn and pressed lie'hlly lhereagainst during the rotation of the none. 'lhe implement in used .lroin lime to time until the i-ol'n (Jl l'tlllllri h; elllilhly removed. 'ihin prim-win oi removing the eorn etet, ham heen l'ound to he very eli'iartual, and pi'allieally painlwn. It will he desirahle to supply a numher ol' the homes with eueh implement and lo maize lhe (runes remoynhle in order lhnt when one none is worn out, it may he L'UPltlltll hy a new one. The lrame may he provided with a snilnhle reeeplzn-le l'or the rez-eplion oi the supply of (,Ulltt-L 'lhe gearing}; may he operated hy any olher means as lound denirahle.

lla inp; thin; deserihed my invention, what i elaim :15 new, and desire lo neeure hy lieilens lalent, in

;\n implement ol' the (lane de;-lerihed, eomprih'inii' a frame, a plurality oi shal'ls in parallel alim-ment and in rinse relation mounled lranrn'ernely in one end. of said l'ranie, one of said shal'ln having one end prom-ling onlaide of said frame an nppreeiahle dinlnm'e, a grindin e eone removahly fixed on said |irojia-ling end, a fly-wheel on the name shalt within the frame, speed multiplying gearing: mounted within the 'l'rame on t-Ztlill shafts and adapted to rotate the dywheel .ehal'ls al a high speed, and means mounted on, one o'l' said ahal'ls lor manually operating: said shal'ls through said multiplying gearing.

in lenlimony whri'eol' l hereunto tlliiX my iiilgjnnlul'r in llupremium of two wilneie es'.

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